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no, in the sandbox they can go wherever and follow the ideas that interest them, that is not an illusion that is what makes it a...

If you have more than 6.5 megadoodahs of player agency you are in a sandbox and if it drops below 3,7 you are on a railroad.

I agree, but there were some adventures where the BBEG could not die in an encounter because he still had a role to play after it, so at...

If the sequence of encounters is up to the players and the consequences of the encounters are up to the players actions, then yes

to me you are conflating two different things. Dolmenwood is a sandbox, a map with 100 linear predetermined locations / dungeons is a...

I think taking a position on the map where the players decide to go off on a particular goal, drawing a line to that goal and calling it...

It’s who makes the choice and when. The referee designs a linear adventure ahead of time for the players to follow. If the referee...

As long as the broader campaign structure is still recognizably a sandbox, yes.

yes no, if the players do something else halfway towards a goal, they do not reach that goal, they abandon it and focus on a new one...

Oh, yes, but I noped out on page 2.

Trying not to spoil anything for anyone... read at your own risk... In Dragons of Summer Flame, Dougan Redhammer is revealed to be...

Yeah, it goes back to TSR D&D. You can see it today in a variety of OSR games, including Castles & Crusades, OSE, OSRIC, Swords &...

It's only infamous because it's a nonsensical question. The style taking the name from the old wargaming sandboxes in no way implies...

I'd suggest not using ENWorld as the place to try to define things. We can't even agree on what an RPG is, so trying to define things...

given that there is a DM, the party will not by itself decide what happens next, even though they strongly influence it. As to having to...